Security update for wget

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:20010-1
Release Date: 2025-02-03T08:47:43Z
Rating: moderate
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2024-38428 ( SUSE ): 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2024-38428 ( NVD ): 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
  • CVE-2024-38428 ( NVD ): 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Micro 6.0

An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description:

This update for wget fixes the following issues:

  • CVE-2024-38428: Fix mishandled semicolons in the userinfo subcomponent of a URI. (bsc#1226419)

  • Update to GNU wget 1.24.5:

  • Fix how subdomain matches are checked for HSTS.
  • Wget will now also parse the srcset attribute in <source> HTML tags
  • Support reading fetchmail style "user" and "passwd" fields from netrc
  • In some cases, prevent the confusing "Cannot write to... (success)" error messages
  • Support extremely fast download speeds (TB/s)
  • Ensure that CSS URLs are corectly quoted
  • libproxy support is now upstream- drop wget-libproxy.patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Micro 6.0
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.0-11=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Micro 6.0 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
    • wget-1.24.5-1.1
    • wget-debugsource-1.24.5-1.1
    • wget-debuginfo-1.24.5-1.1

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